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Conf  Pam  l2mo  #43 


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[Hy  Mr.  Colli kk,  of  Virginia.] 

A  BILL 

To  be  entitled  An  Act  to  declare  Avhat  persons  shall  be  exempt  from 

military  service. 

1  The  Congress   of    the    Confederate    States   of  America   dr>   enact, 

2  That  all  persons  who  shall  be  held  unfit  for  military  service  in 
o  the  field,  by  reason  of  bodily  or  mental  incapacity  or  imbecility, 
■1     under  rules  to  Ijo  prescribed  by  the   Scereiary  of  War;  the  Vice 

6  President  of  the  Confederate  States,  the  officers,  Judicial  and 
G     Executive  of  the  Confederate   and  State  Governments,  includino- 

7  postmasters    appointed    by    the    President  and     confirmed    by 

8  the  Senate,  and  such  clerks  in  their  offices  as  are  allowed  by  tko 
0     Postmaster  General,  and  now  employed,  and  excluding  all  other 

10  postmasters,  their  assistants  and  clerks;  and  except  such  State 

1 1  officers  as  the  several  States  may  h&vc  declared,  or  may  hereafter 


12  declare,  liable  to  lailiUii  uiity,   the  niciuijors  of  both   Houses  of 

13  the  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States,  and  of  the  Legislatures 

14  of  the  several  States,  and  their  r:spective  officers;   all  clerks  now 

15  in  the  offices  of  the  Confederate  and  State  Gove*rnnients  author- 
]G  ized  by  law,  receiving  salaries  or  fees;   all  volunteer  troops,  hcre- 

17  tofore  raised  by  any  State  since  the  passage  of  the  act,  entitled 

1 8  '•  An  act  further  io  provide  for  the  public  defence,"  approved  April 
10  16th,  1862,  while  such  troops  shall  be  in  active  service  under  State 

20  authority;   Provided,  That  this  exemption  shall  not  apply  to  any 

21  person  "who  was  liable  to  be  called  into  service  by  virtue  of  said 

22  act  of  April   IGth.    1SG2  :   all  pilots  and  persons  engaged  in  the 

23  mc^'chant  marine  service;  tlie  president,  superintendents,  con- 
2-1  ductors,  treasurer,  chief  clerk,  engineers,  managers,  station 
2j  agents,  section  masters,  tv;o  expert  track  hands  to  each  section 

26  of  eight  miles,  and  mechanics  in  the  active  service  and  cmploy- 

• 

27  ment  of  railroad  comy)anics,  not  to  embrace  laborers,  porters  and 

28  messengers ;     the  president,    general    superintendent,  and  oper- 

29  ators    of    telegraph    companies,    the    local    superintendent    and 

30  operators  of  said  companies,  not  to  exceed  four  in  number  at  any 

31  locality  but  that  at  the  scat  of  Government  of  the  Confederate 

32  States  ;   the  president,  superintendents,  captains,  engineers,  chief 

33  clerk  and  mechanics  in  the  active  service  and  employment  of  all 


3  -P^. 

34  comp  xnies  engaged  in  river  and  canal  navigation,  and  all  captains 

35  of  boats  and  engineers  therein  employed;  one  editor  of  each 
3G  newspaper  now  being  publishec^^  and  such  employees  as  the  editor 

37  or  proprietor  may  certify  on  oath  to  be  indispensable  for  con- 

38  ducting  the  publication ;  the  public  printer  and  those  employed 

39  to   perform  the  public  printing   for  the  Confederate  and  State 

40  Governments ;    every  minister  of  religion  authorized  to  preach 

41  according;  to  the  rules  of  his  sect,  and  in  the  ref:^ular  discharge 

42  of  ministerial  duties  ;  and  all  persons  who  have  been,  and  now 

43  are  members  of  the  Society  of  Friends,  and  the  Association  of 

44  Dunkards,  Xazarenes  and  Mennonists  in  regular  membership  in 
Ab  their  respective  denominations  :  Provided,  Members  of  the  Society 
4G  of  Friends,  Xazarenes,  Mennonists  and  Dunkards  shall  furnish 
41  substitutes  or  pay  a  tax  of  $500  each  into  the  public  treasury  ; 
'IS  all  physicians  who  now  arc,  and  have  been  for  the  last  five  years, 

49  in     actual    practice    of    their   profession;     all    superintendents 

50  of  public  hospitals,  lunatic  asylums,  and  the  regular  physicians, 

51  nurses  and  attendants  therein,  and  the^  teachers  employed  in  the 

52  institutions  for  the  deaf,  dumb  and  blind ;  in  each  apothecary 
."y.l  store,  now  established  and  doing  business,  one  apothecary  in 
54  good  standing,  who  is  a  practical  apotiiecary  ;  all  superintendents, 
bo  managers,  mechanics  and  miners  employed  in  the  product!  )n  and 


4 

oQ  manufacture  of  salt  to  the  extent  of  twenty  bushels  per  clay,  and 

57  of  lead  and  iron^  and  all  persons  engaged  in  burning  coke,  smelt- 

53  ing  and  raannfacture  of  iron^ regular  miners  in  coal  mines,  and 

59  all  colliers  engaged  in  miking  charcoal  for  making  bar  and  pig 

GO  iron,  not  to  embrace  laborers,  messengers,  -Nvagoners  and  servant?, 

61  unless  employed  at  -works  conducted  under  the  authority,  and  by 

G2  the  ofTicers  or  agents  of  a   State,  or  in  works  employed  in  the 

Go  production  of  iron  for  the  Confederate  States  ;  also  a  regiment 

G4  raised  under,  and  by  authority  of  the  State  of  Texas  for  frontier 

Go  defence,  now  in  the  service  of  said  State,  while  in  such  service  ; 

CG  Provided,  further,  That  the  exemptions  herein  above  enumerated 

Gl  and  granted  hereby,   shall    only    continue    whilst    the    persons 

G8  exempted  are  actually  engaged  in  their  respective  pursuits  or  occu- 

GO  pations :   Providid,  further,  That  the  Secretary  of  War  shall,  upon 

70  such  terms  v.nd  conditions  as  may  be  prescribed  by  him,  and  with 

7  I  the  approval  of  the  President,  exempt  from  all  military  service,  or 

72  detail  for  specified  purposes,  such  person  or  persons,  as,  with  the 

73  approval  of  the  President,  he  may  deem  essential  for  the  good  of 

74  the  service,  or  the  general  interests  of  the  country  ;  and  Provided, 

75  further,  That  the  enrolment  of  persons  between  forty  and  fort}'-- 
7G  five  years  of  age,  shall  be  suspended  until  the  President  shall 
77  call  such  persons  into  the  military  service. 


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1  Sec.  2.  All  acts  or  parts  of  acts,  heretofore  passed  in  conflict 

2  with  the  provisions  herein  contained,  are  hereby  repealed. 


[By  Mr.  Ciiambliss.] 

Strike  out  all  after  the  enacting  clause,  and  insert : 

1  **  That  all  persons  who  shall  be  unfit  for  military  service  in  the 

2  field  by  reason  of  bodily,  or  mental  infirmity,  under  rules  to  be 

3  •prescribed  by  the  Secretary  of  War,  the  officers,  Judicial  and 

4  Executive  of  the  Confederate    and  State    Governments,    except 

5  postmasters  not  nominated  by  the  President  and  confirmed  by  the 
G  Senate  ;  and  except  deputy  sheriffs,  deputy  clerks,  commissioners 

7  of  the  revenue  and  constables  ;  collectors  of  the  taxes  in  towns  and 

8  cities  having  such  officers  ;  the  assistants  and  clerks  in  the  gene- 

9  ral  postoffice ;  the  members  of  both  Houses  of  Congress  of  the 

10  Confederate  States,  and  the  Legislatures  of  the  respective  States 

1 1  and  their  respective  officers  ;  and  such  other  persons  as  the  Presi- 

12  dent  shall  be  satisfied  on  account  of  justice  or  necessity  ought  to 

13  be  exempted,  are  hereby  exempted  from  military  service  of  the 
11  Confederate  Statft. 

1  Sec.  2.    Be  if  further  enacted.  That  all  laws  heretofore  enacted 


() 

2  by  Congress,  exempting  persons   from  military    service  in  the 

3  army  of  the  Confederate  States,  are  hereby  repealed. 


[By  Mr.  LvoNs.] 

1  Sectfox       .   Afid  he  it   further  enacted,  That    it    shall   be    the 

2  duty  of  all  enrolling   officers  under  ".lie  act  entitled  ''An  act  to 

3  enrol    the    names    of  every   -white    male    inhabitant    "within    the 

4  district  of  such  agent,  betAveen  the  ages  of  eighteen  and  forty- 
3  five  years,  and,  in  case  of  the  exej^iption  of  any  such  inhabitant 

6  from  military  service  under. the  authority  of  law,  it  shall  be  the 

7  duty  of  such  enrolling  officers  to  state  opposite  the  name  of  such 

8  person  exempted,  or  excuse.l,the  precise  gvou^nd  or  cause  thereof, 
0  and    a   duplicate  list  of  all    enrolments,   vrith  the    cause  of  any 

10  exemption,  or  failure   to  call  any  conscript  into  service  stated 

1  1  opposite  each  name,  shall  by  each  enrolling  odiccr,  be  filed  "witli 

12  the  judge  of  probate,  or  county  court  of  the  county  Avhere  sucli 

13  enrolment  was  made,  to  be  held  subject  to  public  inspection. 


[By  Mr.  Foster.] 

Amend  by  striking  out  from  the  word  -'yeats"   in.  fourth  line,  all 
down  to  the  word  ''  ore"  in  the  sixth  line. 


[Bj  Mr.   Graham.] 

Amendment    to    be    inserted    after    the    word    "  service  •'    in    the 
fourteenth  line : 

"  Such  persons  as  may  be  held  unfit  for  military   sci  vice   jn  the  field 
by  reason  of  bodily  or  mental  incapacity. 


#     [By  Mr.  Footk.] 

To  come  in  after  word  "States"  in  third  line. 
(Including  person.?  of  foreign  birth,  to  whatever  government  they  may 
profess  to   owe  allegiance,   who   shall  be  found   in    the    Confederate 
States,  after  the  lapse  of  twenty  days  froni  the  passage  of  this  act.) 


[By  Mr.  Darcjax.] 

To  come  in  after  the  words  *'  forty-five  ycar.s  "  in  fourth  line. 
*'Ablc  to  perform  military  service." 


[By  Mr.  Daik^an.] 

.To  come  at  the  end  of  bill. 
Provided,  however,  That  such   judicial  and  executive  officers  of  any 
State,  who,  by  the  lavs  thereof,  are,  or   may    be,    liable  to  perform 
military  service,  shall  not  be  exempted  by  virtue  of  this  act. 


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[By  Mr.  Gartrkll.] 

To  come  in  after  amendment  of  Mr.  Dargan. 
And  provided  further,  That  no  person  shall  be  enrolled,  ^vho  has  a 
substitute  in  the  army,  furnished  in  accordance  with  orders  heretofore 
issued  by  the  Secretary  of  War. 


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